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Most parents lose sleep over the amount of piecemeal work required to cobble together a summer schedule; very few relish the planning and spreadsheets and carpool rota involved in keeping their kids safe and occupied.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
To cobble together the package of content you want requires subscribing to multiple services at ever-increasing cost.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
The “gig economy” entered the lingo in 2009, as increasing numbers of people tried to cobble two or more part-time, no-benefit “gigs” into a living wage.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
It’s going to cost you more than a few billion, but I’m sure you can find a few bored friends and cobble together an offer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
I was growing tired of spending time and money trying to cobble together a wardrobe that satisfied my aesthetic and my religious beliefs.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
At night, the narrow cobbled streets of Old Havana are enveloped in inky black, devoid of power and virtually deserted.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Needing new material for their 1981 tour, the Stones cobbled together “Tattoo You” from leftovers and half-finished songs dating back to “Goats Head Soup.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Firetrucks squeezed through the narrow cobbled streets and tiny archways leading to the cathedral.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
"It's kind of a Frankenstein's monster of a policy change that's been kind of cobbled together," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
And suddenly the madness was behind and they were clattering across the cobbled square that fronted on the castle barbican.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Surprised by this unusual cobbling together of Hindu and Muslim names, the vigilantes left.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
Belgium's complex political system means that De Wever is well versed in the art of painstaking negotiations and cobbling together compromise deals.
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025
And companies such as Huawei are cobbling together workarounds, including by bundling thousands of chips into huge, power-hungry systems that can help train AI models, people familiar with their moves said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
It was essentially cobbling together a Frankenstein résumé from leftover pieces of information harvested from my search history, and passing it off as my own work experience.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
So he did his first experiment at the University of Utah by cobbling together about $30 in parts.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
